Mohamed Al Fayed Says Son And Diana Victims Of Murder Conspiracy

Mohamed Al Fayed named a host of people he believes killed his son and Diana, Princess of Wales, pleaded that he was prevented from getting the proof, and faced a barrage of sarcastic questions from a lawyer for London’s police force.

Al Fayed, who testified Monday at a coroner’s inquest that “dark forces” of the Establishment would not accept a marriage between a princess and a Muslim, named a cast of what he called conspirators, including Prince Philip, Prince Charles, former prime minister Tony Blair and Diana’s sister, Sarah McCorquodale.

He also accused Diana’s brother-in-law Robert Fellowes; two former chiefs of London police; driver Henri Paul; the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency; Diana’s lawyer, the late Lord Mishcon; two French toxicologists; members of the French medical service; and three bodyguards he once employed as being part of the alleged murder plot and coverup.

Al Fayed lashed out at Prince Philip, saying he believed he was a racist and a Nazi and that he should go “back to Germany” — a reference to the prince’s German ancestors. “You want to know his original name? It ends with Frankenstein,” he added.

Asked if the Queen was in on the plot, he said: “I do not think the Queen is important in that.”

Charles’ interest, Al Fayed claimed, was to get Diana out of the way so that he could marry Camilla Parker Bowles. “They finished her, they murdered her and now he is happy. He married his crocodile wife and he is happy with that,” he said.

Al Fayed said the existence of a murder conspiracy was proved by a note of Diana’s fears given to her lawyer in 1995, but not disclosed until 2003. She said she feared being the victim of an arranged car accident.

“And I know that Diana is not hallucinating. It is factual. She suffered for 20 years this Dracula family … and the minute that she can see happiness and love at the end in a family which she respects, they don’t let her do that and they took my son with her,” he testified.

Those who disagreed with Al Fayed were dismissed as either conspirators or liars.

“Do you ever pay any attention whatsoever to the evidence, Mr. Al Fayed?” said Richard Horwell, representing the Metropolitan Police.

Horwell ridiculed key parts of Al Fayed’s theory: that Diana was pregnant, that she and Dodi Fayed were victims of a complex conspiracy, and even that James Andanson, the paparazzi photographer who Al Fayed contends was an assassin dispatched by a wealthy Establishment, drove a white Fiat Uno.

“Can you help as to why the might and power of the Royal Family, the British government and MI-6 chose a Fiat Uno, one of the world’s lightest and least powerful cars?” Horwell said.

“Well, and a clapped-out Fiat Uno,” added the coroner, Lord Justice Scott Baker.

“Well it’s his own car and he chose to use his own car,” Al Fayed said.

Investigators say that the couple’s car did collide with a white Fiat, probably near the scene of the accident, but French police were never able to find the car.

Recalling testimony of two witnesses who said they saw a dog in a white Fiat, Horwell asked: “Can you help as to why Mr. Andanson elected to take his dog on a criminal enterprise?

Horwell also asked why, if the Establishment wouldn’t countenance a Muslim, Diana had not been killed during her relationship of at least 18 months with Pakistani heart surgeon Hasnat Khan.

Though several witnesses have described Diana’s relationship with Khan as intense, Al Fayed dismissed it as “nothing serious.”

“How can she marry someone like that, who lives in a council flat (public housing) and has no money?” Al Fayed said.

Horwell attacked Al Fayed’s account of a telephone conversation with the princess and his son less than two hours before the crash.

Horwell said that would have been the first chance for any conspirators to learn, according to Al Fayed, that his son and Diana were getting engaged and that she was pregnant. Al Fayed asked what his point was.

“It is important, Mr. Al Fayed, because this extraordinarily elaborate conspiracy has but minutes to be formed and to be put into operation,” Horwell said.

“Prince Philip has to be told, Prince Philip has to issue the order, MI-6, MI-5, the French security services, the CIA, the ambulance service, the French doctors, the French scientists, James Andanson and his dog — all have to come together in a matter of minutes,” Horwell said.

Al Fayed said he had been thwarted in attempts to prove his theory.

“How can you want me to get the proof?” Al Fayed said. “I am facing a steel wall of the security service, Official Secrets Act. How can you tell me?”

Last week, Al Fayed’s security chief, John Macnamara, testified that he had no evidence implicating Prince Philip, or that the British ambassador in Paris ordered Diana’s body embalmed to cover up a pregnancy.

The coroner asked Al Fayed if it was possible that he was wrong.

“No way, one hundred per cent,” Al Fayed said.

“I am certain. I am the father who lost his son. And I know exactly the situations. I know exactly the facts.”